2024 Leadership Cleveland Graduation & Alumni Association Scholarship Luncheon
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2024 Leadership Cleveland Graduation & Alumni Association Scholarship Luncheon
Date:
May 22, 2024
Time:
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT
Registration:
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Event Description:
Join us for the 2024 Leadership Cleveland Graduation and Alumni Association Scholarship Luncheon on Wednesday, May 22, at 11:30 a.m. at the Olive Branch Event Center as we honor the graduates of the current year's program and raise funds to provide a non-profit executive with a scholarship to the program.
Each year, if funding is available, the scholarship committee of the Leadership Cleveland Alumni Association awards a scholarship or partial scholarship for the Leadership Cleveland program to a non-profit executive in Cleveland and Bradley County. The funds raised at this luncheon along with alumni donations support that scholarship.
Our guest speaker is Denise Hall the president and owner of Peak Performance, Inc. a Workforce Development Training & consulting company helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence in a continual pursuit of cost reduction and efficiency improvement using the most modern and advanced manufacturing strategies, equipment and processes. Peak Performance operates the Smart Factory Institute located in East Tennessee and guided by the Tennessee Manufacturers Association.
Previously, Ms. Hall was an Operations Executive with a career spanning more than 25 years with Corning, Inc. and their subsidiaries holding positions including Director of World Wide Manufacturing Effectiveness, Director of Operations, Plant Manager and Engineering manager.
Hall has held the position of Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Chattanooga Regional Manufacturers Association and president for the Cleveland Associated Industries. Both associations are committed to the needs of local manufacturing companies ranging from government affairs to education in the community to ensure a prepared workforce. After completing a three-year term as a Board of Director for the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce, she then served as a Board of Director for the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry. In 2014 she was appointed by Bradley County Mayor to the Southeast Tennessee Workforce Development Board. In 2017, she was the Manufacturing Consultant to the Tennessee Manufacturers Association a division of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Hall’s passion is inspiring and encouraging the STEM programs among middle, high school and college students. She is an active industry advisor to area high school engineering programs and is a member and past president of the Chattanooga Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. She was a finalist for the Supernova award by the Young Women’s Leadership Academy Foundation.
Hall received her Bachelor’s of Science in electrical engineering from Syracuse University. She received her certificate from The Lean Manufacturing Leadership Institute at the University of Kentucky, a certificate from the Executive Development Institute at Vanderbilt University and a certificate in Operations Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2018 she was selected and completed the Goldman Sach’s 10K Small Businesses Entrepreneurship Program at Babson College.
Deadline for reservations is Thursday, May 16. All members are welcome to support the alumni association efforts by attending the luncheon.
Each year, if funding is available, the scholarship committee of the Leadership Cleveland Alumni Association awards a scholarship or partial scholarship for the Leadership Cleveland program to a non-profit executive in Cleveland and Bradley County. The funds raised at this luncheon along with alumni donations support that scholarship.
Our guest speaker is Denise Hall the president and owner of Peak Performance, Inc. a Workforce Development Training & consulting company helping manufacturers achieve operational excellence in a continual pursuit of cost reduction and efficiency improvement using the most modern and advanced manufacturing strategies, equipment and processes. Peak Performance operates the Smart Factory Institute located in East Tennessee and guided by the Tennessee Manufacturers Association.
Previously, Ms. Hall was an Operations Executive with a career spanning more than 25 years with Corning, Inc. and their subsidiaries holding positions including Director of World Wide Manufacturing Effectiveness, Director of Operations, Plant Manager and Engineering manager.
Hall has held the position of Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Chattanooga Regional Manufacturers Association and president for the Cleveland Associated Industries. Both associations are committed to the needs of local manufacturing companies ranging from government affairs to education in the community to ensure a prepared workforce. After completing a three-year term as a Board of Director for the Cleveland/Bradley Chamber of Commerce, she then served as a Board of Director for the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry. In 2014 she was appointed by Bradley County Mayor to the Southeast Tennessee Workforce Development Board. In 2017, she was the Manufacturing Consultant to the Tennessee Manufacturers Association a division of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Hall’s passion is inspiring and encouraging the STEM programs among middle, high school and college students. She is an active industry advisor to area high school engineering programs and is a member and past president of the Chattanooga Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. She was a finalist for the Supernova award by the Young Women’s Leadership Academy Foundation.
Hall received her Bachelor’s of Science in electrical engineering from Syracuse University. She received her certificate from The Lean Manufacturing Leadership Institute at the University of Kentucky, a certificate from the Executive Development Institute at Vanderbilt University and a certificate in Operations Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2018 she was selected and completed the Goldman Sach’s 10K Small Businesses Entrepreneurship Program at Babson College.
Deadline for reservations is Thursday, May 16. All members are welcome to support the alumni association efforts by attending the luncheon.
